Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” • Hacker News Board

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by acdha » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #226

acdha wrote: post #127

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Samsung pays for PR, why contribute your reputation pro bono? Everything on that section is talking about the phone. There are no disclaimers or the “simulation” notes ethical companies use.

> There are no disclaimers or the “simulation” notes ethical companies use. Well, other than: > * All images are simulated for demo purpose. you mean...

I mean nothing anywhere near the images. An ethical company would not require you to scroll down a dozen more times to learn that the images you’d been looking at for the last 20 screens were all fake. Samsung does that because they know almost nobody will read tiny text buried in a de-emphasized paragraph and the few who do probably won’t fully discount the full impression.

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by Drdrdrq » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #171

cgriswald wrote: post #58

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Samsung is completely untrustworthy. I might buy another television from them in the future as the screen quality on my Samsung televisions has always been great. But their smart appliances are a joke. Read the reviews for any of the required Samsung "Smart" Apps and you'll find terrible software that doesn't work. Where it does work, at best it technically meets the advertised criteria, but in other cases it seems l…

I have a Samsung "smart TV" and have no intention of ever letting it on my LAN. It does not get the wifi password and has no Ethernet cable. It's used as a dumb display hooked up to a home theatre receiver and Xbox one x, home theatre pc, etc. Do not trust the software on these things.

I do the same. And the next step will be wrapping everything in alu foil, because it is cheap for companies to include gsm module. Only half kidding, unfortunately. :-/

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by m_mueller » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 9:18 AM UTC

detaro wrote: post #259

xfitm3 wrote: post #258

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What is a beamer?

German (and possibly neighboring languages) term for a video projector. One of the weird "english-but-not-actually" words we have.

Thanks for clearing that up - the times when loan words mess up your foreign language skills... ;)

Re: Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”

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Post by trumped » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 8:32 PM UTC

sametmax wrote: post #64

trumped wrote: post #63

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Its pretty hard to find a company that never lied in ads

Which says a lot about the state of our legal systems.

a legal system where nobody knows the laws (the attorneys even have to specialize)